Learn English – “A member of” vs. “a member at”

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Which one is correct? For example:

  • I am a member of Riverside Tennis Club.
  • I am a member at Riverside Tennis Club.

Best Answer

If you look up member in almost any dictionary, all of their usage examples use member of something or another.

If you run a search of member of vs member at in Google's Ngram viewer, you will find that standard writing prefers member of; there are effectively no instances of member at in the corpus.

So you would say, "I am a member of the Riverside Tennis Club." You might use at to clarify, "I am a member of the Riverside Tennis Club at their Granite Bay location."

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